Sliding door for storm-buggies.



S. P. GLUNT.

SLIDING DOOR FOR STORM BUGGIBS. APPLICATION FILED JULY15, 1 912.

1,067,871, I Patented July 22,1913.

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SAMUEL P. GLUNT, OF UNION CITY, INDIANA.

SLIDING DOOR FOR STORMP-BUGGIES.

, Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 22, 1913.

Application filed m 15, 1912. Serial No. 709,595.

To (17! ilk/mm it may, macern lie it known that l, SAM EL P. GLUNT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Union City, in the county of Randolph and State of Indiana; have invented anew'and useful Improvement in Sliding'Doors for Storm Buggies and other Closed-Top Vehicles, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in sliding doors used on closed top vehicles, commonly called storm buggies; and the object of my invention is to provide a carrymg device for sliding doors, which device, is

. opened, draw it inward when closed and securely lock it.

securely lock it when closed.

The nature of my invention will be read ily comprehended, reference being had to the following detailed description and to the accompanying drawings In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a storm buggy body and top having sliding doors, one-door being closed and one partly open, embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a detailed side elevation of a storm buggy door with a portion, cut away and showing my carrying device or track. Fig. 3 is a detailed sectional. view of one side, (the two sides being alike), of a storm buggy top, seat and body, the section being taken at the front edge of the seat, the door being opened to its fullest extent. Fig. 4: is a detailed elevation of my eccentric looking device which I use in connection with my carrying track to give the door an outward swing before opening it and to give it an inward swing when it is closed and to Fig. 5 is a detailed sectional view of my eccentric locking lever showing a sleeve'with a ring. To this ring is attached a button by means of a neck.

Referrin to the drawings by numerals, 1 is the all backward opens the entrance and when moved forward. closes it.

2 is the carrying track placed under the ding door which when moved end of the seat and to which the door is at tached by a bail and a link, this link allowing the door to swing laterally in opening and closing.

3 is the link which attaches thebail to the track 2.

4 is the bail attached to the door and is connected with 2-by meansof the link, 3.

5 is the bottom of the seat. 7

6 and 6 are iron bars extending across the inside of the door at right angles to its edges, are parallel to each other and spaced so as to engage the button on 18.

7 is the side of the storm top.

'8 is a cross barand forms a part of the buggy body.

9 is a side post and forms a part of'the buggy body, I

10 represents open space under the seat.

11 represents the bottom of the buggy body.

12 represents the sill of the buggy body.

13 is the side panel of the buggy body.

14 is the end panel of the seat.

15 is the seat riser.

16 is an iron plate which gives strength to the door. i

17 is an iron which gives strength to the end panel of the seat and forms an attachment for the side of the storm top.

18 1s a ring with. a button attached by lever, 19. This ring. by means of the button engages the bars 6 and 6. i

means of a neck and works-on the eccentric I 19 is an eccentric lever by means bf which the door is pushed outward before opening, and is drawn inward and locked when closed. I

20 is a grooved wooden side bar in which a tongue on '1 slides, and it forms a partof the frame of the storm top.

21 is a horn shaped block which is attached to 22 and gives shape to the storm top.

22 is a wooden bow which formsa part of the frame of the storm top.

28 are glass lights in the sides and front of the storm top.

24 are wooden front of the storm top.

Having thus described my E'claim is-- A sliding door combined with a. carrying track attached to the bottom of thcseat end,

invention, what a bail attached to the inside of the bottpm ring the door is e lnsedig iewing out and in I end of the door andconnected with the onthe track, substantia llx flesclihd.

track by means ofa link, two parallehbarsf extending across'the inside of .the doorrat right angles to its edges, an eccentric'lever, 'Witnes'ses; and-a ring having a button attached to one 1 W. J. GLUNT, side' of it byn neck and by which lever and I A. L. CABTEB.'

- SAMUEL R LUNT.

copies of this vpatent may be oMaLined for five cents each, by addressing the Ghmngissioner'of Yaten ts,

. Washington, D. G. l 

